Baptismal Date!

Is Anziano Kenney still you companion? You never told us what happened last transfer.

Yeah, Anziano Kenney is still my companion. He is great. We are doing good work together. We both finish our missions together as well. I am wondering if I will stay here in Rome with Anziano Kenney next transfer or if I will go someplace else for 5 weeks. We will see. 

What was coolest thing you saw this week?

This week our homie, Mamun accepted a baptismal date. He is awesome. He was Muslim but we converted him. We have been working with him about 2 months. He is really cool. Unfortunately his family is not very happy about it. I hope so bad that he can make friends with the members here and get baptized. We went out to eat with him and our member who was Muslim as well this week. The member is from Egypt. It was really good.

What was your best lesson of the week and why?

We taught a less active who just moved here in from Afghanistan (He used to live in Sweden and was baptized there). He was also Muslim. But we started doing family history with him and it’s really cool because he comes from a land where there are no members of the church. He is currently living here as a refugee because he cannot return home or he will be killed. There is a pretty steep barrier language when we teach him though. He is really cool. 

What was the hardest thing you did this week?

Church was kind of stressful. We had some cool people in church and also some investigators and everything didn’t go as well as it could have. But I guess if the cool new people can make it through a day in church like that then they can make it through anything!

What was your miracle of the week?

We had a conference with Elder Teixeira this week. He will speak in general conference in a few weeks. It was a really neat conference. He talked about leaving behind the culture that our mission has had for the last 20 years (He has been working for the area for a very long time. 20 years. Wow.). It was cool.